A key emphasis for the company is to automate much of the management of systems in the data center, and it highlighted the ability to create templates to handle much of the provisioning, planning, consolidation, and recovery processes. IT managers can create a template and define the amount of computing, storage, networking, power and cooling, and other resources for, say, a mail and message system for 500 people or an e-store. Once it has been reviewed and approved, it can be used over and over again to quickly create systems, applications, and processes as needed.
Ganthier says the HP Systems Insights Manager software gathers information from agents and will let IT managers optimize for any number of factors, including performance or density or power usage or a mix. "We are trying to create a push-button infrastructure," he says.
At the same time, HP says it will cut costs for IT departments struggling with tight budgets by consolidating networking equipment by 4-to-1 and cutting server costs by 45 percent. The company also says it can substantially improve storage utilization rates and slash power and cooling costs.
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